mystical tradition
Spiritual wisdom heritage
A mystical tradition is a lineage of spiritual practices and teachings aimed at direct experience of the divine or ultimate reality.
Such traditions exist within major religions—Kabbalah in Judaism, Sufism in Islam, contemplative Christianity, various schools of Hinduism and Buddhism—and share emphasis on inner transformation over doctrinal belief.
She studied the mystical tradition of the Desert Fathers.
- sacred artDevotional visual expression
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
- SufismIslamic spiritual mysticism
- inner lightSpiritual guidance within oneself
- meditationFocused attention practice
contemplation · holy silence · theurgy · Kabbalah · spiritual practices · dualism · asceticism · desert fathers · Hermeticism · esotericism · Gnosticism · sacred geometry · sacred texts · prayer · transcendence · union with God · divine names · dark night of the soul
- Guru Traditionsparampara, disciples, master, spiritual lineage, darshan
mystical traditionscientific method
Structured process for investigation
empiricism · rationalism · materialism · physicalism · reductionism
mystical traditionorthodoxy
Adherence to accepted beliefs
fundamentalism · dogmatism · ritualism · canon law · organized religion
mystical traditiondisenchantment
Loss of cherished belief
atheism · secular humanism · nihilism · consumerism · cynicism
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